Publicly funded research and innovation (R&I) projects and international standards development are two forms of collaborative technical activities that aim to provide benefits to markets and society, and yet coordination between them is often poor. Such coordination is complicated as both R&I projects and standards development projects both operate over fixed lifecycles, such that for example a standard that is useful for a R&I project may not be ready yet, or may have expired. The EU, with a current R&I budget of €95 billion, is developing policies to encourage better coordination of the R&I projects it funds and the use and development of international standards [1]. This project will develop a linked open data resource to support the collection of persistent records that represent both standards and the published outputs of research and innovation projects and generate any links between them, especially when related to regulatory compliance. This will require the sourcing of meta data on such items from different standards and R&I projects, to capture their current state (e.g. in progress or complete) and mine this dataset of links between R&I outputs and standards where they exist. Open knowledge graph techniques and tools [2], including editing metadata schema should be used [3]
[2] https://lot.linkeddata.es/
[3] https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/ssos